Key Glock is no stranger to Houston’s House of Blues but May 13 was his first time back since the passing of the late Young Dolph back in November of 2021. Being a cousin-by-marriage to Dolph, the South Memphis rapper continues to make a name for himself and his Paper Route Empire counter parts. There was plenty of dedication to fallen self-proclaimed “King of Memphis” as both the crowd and performers sang along anytime Young Dolph came on that night. No need for smoke machines either as the crowd supplied the smoke for the Yellow tape covered stage in preparation for the last stop in Texas for Key Glocks Yellow Tape 2 tour.
First to perform is a new associate to the Paper Route Empire record label Texas-based PRE artists Brick Wolfpack. Brick got the crowd going with one of his latest releases “Mexican Jigga”. Being from Houston himself, he was a great choice for an opener as the crowd was very anxious to get the P.R.E. party started. Brick yells out “Ya’ll say town one time, man!” and he shouts “H!” and the crowd shouting back with “Town!” going into his next track “Top Spot”.
Following Brick was PaperRoute Woo starting his set off with “Fully Equipt”. Rocking a matching pink Supreme hoodie and hat Woo kept energy going with “Pop out” a song he has with labelmate Snupe Bandz, however Jay Fizzle came to rock it out with Woo. Closing his set with the then unreleased track titled “Made It Happen” Woo kept the smoke in the air and the crowd jumping. Woo is making a name for himself in preparation for the upcoming mixtape “Boyz in the Hood” with the absent Snupee Bandz.
Jay Fizzle was up next to perform with “Here we go”, one of the many tracks performed that night off the last PRE collaborative album released by the late Dolph “Paper Route iLLUMINATi”. Fizzle ended his set with “LLD” a tribute song to his mentor Dolph.
The Paper Route party really got jumping with Big Moochie Grape. Starting off with “In Dolph We Trust” and moving into “Uh Huh Uh Huh Uh Huh” shirtless Grape came down from the stage and could be seen flexing his diamonds front row with the crowd. It was at the start of “iLLUMINATi BUSINESS” Grape was now in the pit performing as DJ Rock Steddy pleaded with the Memphis rapper “They wanna see you Grape!” Grape was not having it as he continued to perform “I’m The One” and one more unreleased track Promoting his upcoming May 27th album “East Haiti Baby”.
Kenny Muney hit the stage with “Ashtray” another track from the “Paper Route iLLUMINATi” album. Up next from Muney was “Change Up” from his latest album “Time Is Muney”. Muney ended his set by performing “Role Model” his dedication song from the P.R.E. collaborative album “Long Live Young Dolph”.
At this point of the set, it was already 15 minutes past Key Glocks stage time as the stage filled up with multiple residents of the Paper Route Empire label like Big Moochie Grape and Bigg Uncc. DJ Rock Steddy continued the party going with playing multiple Young Dolph songs up until Bigg Uncc grabbed a mic and started to perform “Beat it”. Uncc jumped down from the stage and asked the DJ to pause the track and start it over. He continued to perform in the crowd until ending his set on stage with his latest single “Letta to flippa” another dedication song to the late Dolph.
With a fully pumped crowd, DJ Rock Steddy announces that before Glock comes out, he wants to hear his favorite song first. Chief Keef’s “Faneto” starts playing and the crowd goes crazy shouting the lyrics to the Chicago-based rapper’s song. Around 10:30 the beginning of “Gang shit, no lame shit” starts and the crowd comes alive with excitement already shouting every word. Glock comes out with the yellow lit stage with nothing but smiles. “We about to turn the F*** up right now, I love coming out here man..” yells as he tells the DJ to drop the next track “I’m Just Sayin”. Bouncing with the crowd into “Something about me” you can tell that Glock still loves to perform even taking a second to ask the crowd “If you like making money, like I like making money, say Hell yeah!”. Performing both old and new songs Glock brings the show to and end with the rest of the P.R.E. crew with Young Dolph’s “Get Paid”.
All in the spirits of Young Dolph there were several tributes to him throughout the show. Dolph would be proud of how proud his artists were to be part of his continued legacy.
All photos by Aaron Rodriguez
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